Bionicle G2 and The Amazing Spider-Man movies are alike

[Lenny7092]

Since that horrible cancellation of Bionicle G2 happened, I started to compare Bionicle G2 to a movie franchise called The Amazing Spider-Man movies in 2012 and 2014 (you ever heard about them?). I noticed that there are some similarities between the two franchises, and they are:

1. Both are rebooted 2010s versions from the original 2000s versions that are modernized, used for younger audience, came around five years after the cancellations of the 2000s versions, got cancelled after two years since they started, and lasted shorter than their 2000s versions.

2. Each of both 2000s versions have good and bad reviews in their last installments before they got rebooted.

3. Companies who made the 2000s versions couldn't continue them, so that's why they made the reboots.

4. Each of the 2010s versions have two storylines. Bionicle G2 has two story years while The Amazing Spider-Man series has two movies.

5. Both the 2010s versions were planned to last longer, but they were stopped as they got cancelled.

6. Both the 2010s versions use different actors to play their recycled characters, as well as the characters are and look different from their 2000s versions.

7. Both the 2010s versions use new characters as well as the old ones.

8. Both have main protagonists who learn how to be a hero and how to use their powers. The Toa had to learn that they have to fight evil to save Okoto, use their weapons, elemental powers, and masks. Peter Parker from TASM learns to become Spider-Man after he got spider-powers by learning how to use them and it is his self-given duty to save and protect people from threats.

9. The heroes from both franchises change suits and get new equipment.

10. Most of each of the 2010s franchises' villains are new and the main antagonists are old ones from the 2000s franchises, but look different and have different lives.

11. The heroes get ordinary people to support them in their adventures.

12. The heroes determine to know the truth that is related and personal to them. The Toa want to learn about their past while Peter wanted to learn about his parents' disappearance.

13. The heroes learn something about their evil enemies' intentions. The Toa learned about the Skull Creatures wanting to steal their golden masks to steal their energy and Umarak the Destroyer seeking the pieces of the Mask of Ultimate Power. Peter learns about a secretly-corrupt company called Oscorp's intentions to do bio-engineering and genetic-altering.

14. Both the 2010s franchises have funny and agile heroes, who are Lewa and Spider-Man.

15. Both show more funny scenes than their 2000s counterparts.

16. The Lord of Skull Spiders and the Lizard from the first The Amazing Spider-Man movie are the first villains to be fought by the heroes, as well as they both attract creatures relating to them. The LoSS attracts the Skull Spiders while the Lizard attracts normal and smaller lizards.

17. Umarak is like the villains from TASM movies combined. Umarak is like Electro and the Rhino when he is hired by the main villain to help them (Umarak was hired by Makuta to get his Mask of Control while Electro and Rhino are hired by the Green Goblin to help him). The main villain also enhances them with things (Umarak got enhanced when Makuta used the Mask to turn him into his Destroyer while Harry Osborn (before he turned into the Green Goblin) gave Electro a suit to help him with his powers and Rhino with a giant metal suit to destroy Spider-Man). Umarak the Hunter is like the Green Goblin when he is a smart, green-armored guy who threatened to drop a good-hearted character that a hero cares off a tall structure in front of the hero (In this case, Umarak threatened to drop Ketar off a tall cliff in front of Pohatu while the Goblin threatened to drop a girl named Gwen Stacy from a tall tower in front of Spidey). When Umarak became the Destroyer, he is like the Lizard by being mutated with claws, Electro by being a mutated (never wanted to be mutated before the mutation happened) villain who has the most screen time than the other villains in the second installment and gets killed in the end, the Green Goblin by not wanting to be mutated into a freak, and the Rhino by being large and dangerous who appeared like that in the end of the second installment.

18. Pohatu and Spider-Man had to attempt to save beings that they cared from falling to their deaths. However, Pohatu saved Ketar while Spider-Man couldn't save Gwen, who is his girlfriend (Gwen died, and that was as traumatizing as Bionicle G1 and G2's cancellations). Plus, it's interesting that both Pohatu and Peter's names both start with a "P", and Ketar element, Stone, is the same as the actress who played Gwen, Emma Stone's last name. Lol.

19. Makuta is like the Rhino and Green Goblin combined. Makuta got mutated by the Mask of Ultimate Power while Harry Osborn was given a serum that turned him into the Green Goblin. They became stronger and got new armor and powers. They also both appear, fought and get defeated by the heroes and at the very end of the second installments and the entire stories (not too impressed, in my opinion). Makuta and Rhino are also big and last villains in the second installments and the entire stories to be fought by the heroes (Makuta got defeated while Rhino's battle with Spider-Man was never concluded sadly).

20. They both have a grudge against the heroes before they got mutated. Makuta was jealous of Ekimu, so he created the Mask of Ultimate Power and was trying to use it, but Ekimu stopped him by knocking the mask off from his face. Makuta later turned evil and wanted to defeat Ekimu and the Toa when he could get out of the Shadow Realm. Harry asked Spider-Man if Spider-Man could help him cure his disease, but Spidey declined, so Harry hated him and turned evil.

21. Stories from both the 2010s stories have shadowed villains who secretly serve as major threats to the heroes. Makuta is sort of like that before revealing his giant form while a man in the shadows in TASM movies works with Harry in creating the Sinister Six and defeating Spider-Man.

22. Both second installments sadly show major female characters with heroic hearts die in the end. In the 4th episode of The Journey to One, Gali died by having her soul sucked into the Shadow Realm, but the soul returned to her body, so she's alive again. Gwen, however, died from a fall from a tall clock building in the end of the The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and stays dead (Poor girl. Why can't she be like Gali by being still alive? ). (To be honest, I originally thought that Pohatu is going to die instead of Gali because Gwen's actress, Emma Stone's last name is the same as Pohatu's element. Lol. Plus, Pohatu would have sacrificed himself to try to make up for his mistake of letting Umarak the Hunter take the Mask of Control when Umarak, as the Destroyer, proves too powerful for the Toa to defeat.)

23. Each of the rebooted franchises has both good and bad reviews and their stories are a bit rushed, which could be reasons why they are infamously cancelled. That really broke my heart twice. (crying in tears of sadness). When some people say that after their cancellations, they feel that the rebooted franchises could be sort of forgotten.

 

Both rebooted franchises may have ended, but they may be able to have a future for their entire franchises in history. The Amazing Spider-Man series got cancelled because of mixed reviews on the second movie and Marvel Studios got back their Spider-Man movie rights from Sony as they both decided to share it, so Spider-Man could appear in Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe movie called Captain America: Civil War, which was released this year, which is two years from TASM series's cancellation. Spider-Man will also get his own MCU movie coming 2017. Marvel Studios always makes very successful movies and people love the new Spidey (the new actor was well), so they would make new Spider-Man movies more successful than the old ones. Bionicle G2 got cancelled for an unknown, possibly because of bad sales and the story being too simple and rushed.

It is unknown if Bionicle could back after 2017 because we know that there won't be any new sets in that year, but due to my analysis on the Spider-Man movies, I made a theory that would enlighten you: Lego would be planning to make a G3 in possibly 2018 and this time, they would be feature some Bionicle characters (mostly likely the Toa Mata/Toa Masters) into a Lego cinematic universe. It would be The Lego Movie Cinematic Universe where they will have major roles or a different cinematic universe based on Lego in general and similar to Lego Dimensions (imagine Tahu, Preston Stormer from Hero Factory, Lloyd from Ninjago, Laval from Legends of Chima, Clay Moorington from Nexo Knights, Flain from Mixels, and Emmet from The Lego Movie working together to defeat a common threat Avengers-style?). This would be similar to how Spider-Man first appeared in the MCU.

Or something similar to the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie this year in a better way where the Toa fight and/or assist some characters from other Lego themes to face a common threat (Imagine Tahu fighting or assisting Preston Stormer or Kai from Ninjago BvS style?). Or Bionicle could reboot as its own theme before it could crossover with other Lego themes. Either way, Lego would make successful stories and themes, like they did with The Lego Movie, so let's all hope that same goes to Bionicle as much as Marvel Studios is to Spider-Man.

 

So, what do you guys think of all this? Good comparisons? Find my theory possible that Bionicle could back as G3 that way?

Edited September 14, 2016 by Lenny7092

[Sir Keksalot]

And they both have spiders

[Volatile]

Kind of a stretch, dontcha think?

[Lenny7092]

And they both have spiders

Well, yes. At first, I thought this comparison is not important, but you make a good point. Both 2010s franchises involved abnormal spiders with powers. In Bionicle 2015, there are skull-shaped spiders called the Skull Spiders, which can mind-control people when they attach to their faces. In the first The Amazing Spider-Man movie in 2012, there is a radioactive or genetically-altered spider that bit Peter Parker by the hand and gave him spider-powers.

 

Kind of a stretch, dontcha think?

What do you mean by that? Was I saying too much in each comparison. I was trying to use these comparisons to make a theory of how Bionicle would return in 2-3 years as G3.

[Toa Doublebee]

I stopped reading once I hit spoilers. Sorry. (I have yet to watch, and have no idea how to watch the animated series)

But some of these "similarities" are common in any and all stories. Like number 13. C'mon man.

 

All we need now is for BIONICLE to show up in a team up project like Spidey in Civil War. Dimensions maybe?

[Tuuli]

I hated Spiderman G2, at least bionicle was somewhat decent

[TheSkeletonMan939]

They both were mediocre/ terrible reboots of once-great franchises!

 

Am I the only one who likes Spider-Man 3, by the way?

Edited September 14, 2016 by TheSkeletonMan939

[Katanga]

Am I the only one who likes Spider-Man 3, by the way?

Not at all. Then again, I haven't seen it since I was a child.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

 

Am I the only one who likes Spider-Man 3, by the way?

Not at all. Then again, I haven't seen it since I was a child.

 

Terrible movie at the end of the day. Even Sam Raimi is ashamed of it. It fluctuates between pretty good and pretty bad so quickly!

But I still like it for what it is.

[Lenny7092]

I stopped reading once I hit spoilers. Sorry. (I have yet to watch, and have no idea how to watch the animated series)

But some of these "similarities" are common in any and all stories. Like number 13. C'mon man.

 

All we need now is for BIONICLE to show up in a team up project like Spidey in Civil War. Dimensions maybe?

Sorry that I revealed some spoilers and making you think that I put some overly-common similiarities. I was trying to pick which similarities are the most unique between to two sadly-ended reboots.

Speaking of similarities, I also forgot to mention that

24. Both rebooted franchises include powerful guys using hi-tech-looking jet-like machines to fly, they ride them with their feet, and use blades. In this case, Bionicle G2's Pohatu uses his boomerangs as gliders on his feet while he carries a dagger while The Amazing Spider-Man 2's the Green Goblin, well, use a glider to fly and a strange-looking blade.

As for Lego Dimensions, well, I think Bionicle would best re-appear a 2018 wave in the game's Year 3 because I believe Bionicke would best return in two after G2's cancellation, similar to Spider-Man, but that is a random crossover that has to go along with a currently-running Lego theme, like Ninjago. In terms of movies, Bionicle would also best re-appear in a movie from The Lego Movie Cinematic Universe with a major role (perhaps that Billion Brick Race movie where the Toa Mata are racing along with other minifigures or a movie that is similar to Captain America: Civil War that mainly involves Lego characters fighting each other) or a different movie movie similar to the Avengers movie from 2012 and Lego Dimensions (imagine Tahu working together with Preston Stormer from Hero Factory, Lloyd from Ninjago, Laval from Chima, Emmet from The Lego Movie, Flain from Mixels, and Clay from Nexo Knights to fight a common who threatens to invade their homes, like Makuta Teridax or the Overlord from Ninjago? Just saying an example.).

 

I hated Spiderman G2, at least bionicle was somewhat decent

I never liked the fact that Spider-Man G2 never had a conclusion or Peter getting a new girl, either. Bionicle G2 had a good conclusion, however. I also always loved Spider-Man G1 and Bionicle G1 better than their G2 versions. It just seems that the companies, that made the movies, may have sort of forgotten what made the G1s so great and were busy modernizing, making completely new stories, improving some things, and putting a lot of new characters. There is no reason to put that much new characters. I mean, I miss the old ones, and the G1s, including their wonderful magic that made them more successful than the G2s.

 

 

 

Am I the only one who likes Spider-Man 3, by the way?

 

Not at all. Then again, I haven't seen it since I was a child.

Terrible movie at the end of the day. Even Sam Raimi is ashamed of it. It fluctuates between pretty good and pretty bad so quickly!

But I still like it for what it is.

I hadn't seen it for several years either (Spider-Man 3's 10th anniversary is coming up next year, by the way.). Man, that movie has too many villains. Even one of them, Venom, is rushed as a super-villain who meets his defeat.

Bionicle G1's 2010 story arc kind of has the same rushing issue, too. I mean, Lego cancellation G1's fifth movie and then made the 2010 story, where Mata Nui (the being) goes straight to the Valley of the Maze instead of doing some things from the fifth movie's script, got a power source for a giant prototype robot, a war between some of returned characters happened, Mata Nui defeated Teridax, Spherus Magna restored, and everybody has new peace as everything big has done before the 2010 and 2011 serials began. This was quick in the first six months of 2010. The Stars are tiny, and I feel that it's silly to shrink six returned characters to show the fact that they are the last sets of G1. Man, things are messed up when the last installments are rushed to get big things over things.

Edited November 20, 2016 by Lenny7092